Since its start a century ago, Communism, a political and economic ideology that calls for a classless society in which everything is shared equally, has seen a series of surges—and declines. What started in 1917 Russia, became a global revolution, taking root in countries as far-flung as ...
Spain allows Cuban ports to open for international trade. Within two years, over half of Cuba’s trade is with the United States, her largest trading partner. 1823: U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams defines US policy towards Cuba, writing, “These islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico) ...
Lenin had developed the Marxist theory of vanguardism before the Bolshevik Revolution. This theory argued that a close-knit group of politically enlightened elites was necessary to usher in the higher stages of economic and political evolution: socialism and finally communism. Lenin died shortly after...
Cuba is no longer the Americas’ lonely outpost of communism. This Caribbean island has become a nation of entrepreneurship,democratic aspiration, even pro-Americanism. About13% of Cuban workersare in the private sector, operating their own businesses. They are called “cuentapropistas,” meaning ...
Spain had already lost the Philippines, excepting Manila, to native rebels, and was barely holding its own against Cuban rebels. On August 12, 1998, the Spanish signed an armistice. 500 Americans had died in battle, while 5000 had died of tropical diseases....
Cuba is no longer the Americas’ lonely outpost of communism. This Caribbean island has become a nation of entrepreneurship,democratic aspiration, even pro-Americanism. About13% of Cuban workersare in the private sector, operating their own businesses. They are called “cuentapropistas,” meaning ...
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy In Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy turns his attention to events in the 1960s which nearly led to nuclear armageddon between the US and the USSR. Plokhy's last book...
As First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the nation, he worked to provide free education and healthcare to the people and develop sports, culture and science. In addition, the Cuban leader was a pioneer in battling the current international economic order, part...
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that we need to move away from the male-centrism of the mainstream literature, and from these women's assumed anti-feminism , the emphasis on the failures of communism , and assumptions about communist women functionaries as conservative apparatchiks in the women's and gender history scholarship...